Dan Holdsworth

Born in 1974 in the United Kingdom, Dan Holdsworth lives and works in London. Holdsworth creates large-scale photographs characterized by the use of traditional techniques and unusually long exposure times. His practice deals with hybridity and limits: what we recognize and what we fail to understand. It engages with contemporary forms of the sublime, exploring the limits that shape our perception of time and space. Holdsworth often travels to remote locations around the world in order to capture deserted landscapes and futuristic environments, reminiscent of science fiction settings. His photographic series “The world in itself” (2000) documents hard and cold landscapes, which appear as barren and otherworldly as the lunar surface. His project “Machine for living” (1999) presents the city as a soulless device, at once powerful and threatening. Human presence is both evoked and repressed whereas the plastic qualities of motorways and buildings are magnified. Recent solo exhibitions Continuous Topography, Audemars Piguet Art Commission, Art Basel, Switzerland (2016), A Future Archeology, Scheublein + Bak, Zurich, Switzerland (2016), Spatial Objects, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK (2015), “Blackout” at Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva (2010), “Ultravisitor” at Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad (2007), “White Noise” at Store Gallery, London (2007), and “Geographics” (with Paul Shepheard) at MIMA, Middlesbrough (2007). His work has also been shown as part of “CRASH, Homage to JG Ballard” at Gagosian Gallery, London (2010), “All Tomorrow’s Pictures” at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2007), “How We Are: Photographing Britain” at Tate Britain, London (2007), “Modern-Life Painters” at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006), “Spectacular City” at The Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam (2006) and ” Transmission” at Brancolini Grimaldi (2012) . He has been nominated for the Beck’s Futures award at the ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2001). Dan Holdsworth is represented by: Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva and SCHUEBLEIN + BAK, Zurich.

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
  • Dan Holdsworth: Spatial Objects, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
2018
  • Dan Holdsworth: Continuous Topography, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
2017
  • Dan Holdsworth: Mapping the Limits of Space, Museums Sheffield, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2016
  • Dan Holdsworth: A Future Archaeology, Musée des Beaux-arts, Le Locle, Le Locle, Switzerland
2015
  • Dan Holdsworth: Spatial Objects, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
2014
  • Dan Holdsworth: Mirrors, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
2010
  • Dan Holdsworth: Blackout, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
  • Blackout: Dan Holdsworth, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Earthbound: Contemporary Landscape from the Roberts Institute of Art, The Roberts Institute of Art, London, UK
  • Earthbound: Contemporary Landscape from the Roberts Institute of Art, Museums Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2020
  • Shadows and Light, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
  • Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Photography, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2019
  • Dark Lantern. Attercliffe™️ curated by Paul Morrison, Knust Kunz, Munich (Theresienstrasse), Munich, Germany
  • John Ruskin: Art & Wonder, Museums Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
  • Civilization: The Way We Live Now, UCCA Beijing, Beijing, China
2018
  • Land__scope: Wide horizons Contemporary photography from the DZ Bank collection, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
  • Hatje Cantz Pop-Up Store, Circle Culture Art GmbH, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014
  • Walk On From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff – 40 Years of Art Walking, The Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK
  • Walk On: From Richard Long To Janet Cardiff. 40 Years Of Art Walking, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK
2010
  • Nuit Blanche, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
2009
  • Sound Escapes, SPACE, London, UK

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